Setting a launch date of March 6, 2012, a dedicated team focused on migrating 20,000 pages of content from the old intranet into CONNECT; an information architecture team identified tags, metadata and created navigation; a design team created the overall look and feel for the site; a profiles team developed social features including staff profiles and creating a "mysite" for every staff person; and a search team redefined search capabilities.

There was also a launch campaign that included fun videos with "Captain CONNECT" and communications around training.

Launch day attracted more than 50,000 page views, compared to 14,000 on the highest traffic days of the old system. Four months later, 50% of staff accessed the site on a daily basis; 90% of senior managers completed profiles, with 52% of the entire staff having completed theirs.

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